COMPANIES

• Veronica Labs tries out its herbal anti-AIDS drug
• i-flex solution for Korean co
• HLL: Some more reductions
• New prostrate drug from Dr Reddy's
• Accent GVS: Hyundai hikes price
• Merck net up to Rs.14.34 crore
• Tata Motors to go in for FCCBs
• Maruti sets up centre for excellence
• New handset schemes from Reliance Infocomm
• Sagem mobile phones launched in Kerala
• Xerox unveils new office products
• Emerson launches new UPS
• Sonata Q4 net down 19 per cent
• Sify reports marginal profit for Q4
• Dentsu bags Blaupunkt account
• FCUK launches watch collections
• MRF tops JD Power study
• Intas Biotech launches Arsenox for cancer
• Toyota launches Qualis MYST

GENERAL

• Poll India: 2004
• NCAER forecasts 6.7 per cent GDP growth
• Auto components exports cross $1 billion

BANKING AND FINANCE

• Rupee unchanged
• Canara Bank: Cuts home loan rates
• RBI asks banks to accept coins by weight
• Dena Bank revises NRE deposit rates
• AIBOC Kerala drops strike plan
  

MARKETS

• Sensex down 61 points
• DSP Merrill lets loose a TIGER

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

• Revolutionary chipsets from Intel
• Adobe's Video Collection 2.5: Cross product integration
• Avid unveils the Avid Xpress Studio
• Panasonic and Apple bring HD to desktop editing